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Retrovirology
Open Access
Editorial
The 2006 Retrovirology Prize: call for nominations
Kuan-Teh Jeang*
Address: The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Email: Kuan-Teh Jeang* - kj7e@nih.gov
* Corresponding author
Abstract
Retrovirology announces a nomination call for its 2006 prize to recognize an outstanding mid-career
retrovirologist The 2005 Retrovirology prize was awarded to Dr Stephen P Goff.
This month Retrovirology completes two years of
continu-ous publishing At the 24 months juncture, we are pleased
with the support and traction that we have achieved
within our scientific community Retrovirology is now
tracked and indexed in all major bibliographic services
including Medline, PubMed, Embase, and Thomson ISI; and
citations in the literature to Retrovirology papers are
increasingly numerous
To our knowledge, we are the only journal focused on
ret-rovirus research that is Open Access Is that important? You
bet! When you consider that we are a tightly focused
pub-lication serving a numerically small community, and you
realize that Retrovirology is being accessed over 1740 times
each week day and 1670 times each weekend day, then I
believe you can appreciate the real demand for and the
power of Open Access As science moves increasingly
toward globalization, Retrovirology embraces the timely
and necessary concept that we have a responsibility to
dis-tribute scientific knowledge using an access model that
transcends professional classifications, national
bounda-ries, individual wealth, and accidents of birth
In keeping with Retrovirology's goal to highlight high
qual-ity stringently reviewed science and to bring visibilqual-ity to
retrovirus research, the journal sponsors an annual
Retro-virology Prize.
Nominations are being called for the 2006
Retrovirology Prize
Last year Retrovirology began an annual prize to recognize
an outstanding retrovirologist between the ages of 45 to
60 [1] The Retrovirology Prize consists of an attractive
crys-tal trophy (Figure 1), a $3,000 cash award, and a profile
article of the winner published in Retrovirology about his/ her scientific contributions to retrovirus research The Ret-rovirology Prize is supported in part through a donation
from the Ming K Jeang Foundation (Figure 2), an educa-tional foundation based in Houston, Texas, USA
Accord-ingly, the Prize is named the M Jeang Retrovirology Prize.
In 2005, Dr Stephen P Goff of Columbia University, USA, was our winner [2] We anticipate selecting an equally outstanding and accomplished scientist for 2006
The selection process
As stated previously [1], the Prize alternates yearly between recognizing a non-HIV retrovirologist (2005 and odd years) and an HIV retrovirologist (2006 and even years) There can be some discretion on this criterion exer-cised from time-to-time by the selection committee Any individual can initiate a nomination of others or self-nominate A nomination includes a statement (1000 words or less) of the nominee's significant contributions
to retrovirus research; a curriculum vitae of the nominee, and a statement by the nominator that the nominee has
Published: 15 March 2006
Retrovirology 2006, 3:17 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-3-17
Received: 12 March 2006 Accepted: 15 March 2006 This article is available from: http://www.retrovirology.com/content/3/1/17
© 2006 Jeang; licensee BioMed Central Ltd
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agreed to be nominated The selection committee consists
of the Editors of Retrovirology (currently, M Benkirane, B.
Berkhout, M Fujii, K.T Jeang, M Lairmore, A Lever, and
M Wainberg) All nominations submitted to the selection
committee must be communicated through an Editorial
Board member of Retrovirology Hence, any individual
who is not an Editorial board member who wishes to
make a nomination should seek out a Retrovirology
Edito-rial board member to communicate his/her information
to the selection committee A list of current Editorial
Board members can be found at the Retrovirology website
http://www.retrovirology.com Within stipulated age
lim-its, all Retrovirology Editors and Editorial Board members
are eligible to be nominated with the exception of the
Edi-tor-in-Chief who will administer the final selection
deci-sion
For 2006, nominations will begin April 1st and will close
June 1st I urge all members of our scientific community to
participate in this process for recognizing a deserving
col-league
Acknowledgements
I thank M Benkirane, B Berkhout, M Fujii, M Lairmore, A Lever, and M Wainberg, for critical readings of this editorial.
References
1. Jeang K-T: Life after 45 and before 60: the Retrovirology Prize.
Retrovirology 2005, 2:26.
2. Jeang K-T: Small philanthropy and big science: the
RETROVI-ROLOGY prize and Stephen P Goff Retrovirology 2005, 2:43.
Logo of the Ming K Jeang Foundation which has made a
donation to support the Retrovirology Prize
Figure 2
Logo of the Ming K Jeang Foundation which has made a
donation to support the Retrovirology Prize.
A photograph of the crystal trophy presented to Dr Stephen
P Goff, winner of the 2005 M Jeang Retrovirology Prize
Figure 1
A photograph of the crystal trophy presented to Dr Stephen
P Goff, winner of the 2005 M Jeang Retrovirology Prize.